Is This All You?

Walking and talking.

The big question again.

Is this all you?

What makes you think that there's a separate I? Behind your eyes.

It's this realization that came upon me a little over a year ago which made me begin to doubt the reason behind separation.

Is it something you are talked into from an early age?

You get called a name which you are referred to.

But what is that?

It's like a signifier for that body/mind.

We can acknowledge that.

But isn't there more to it?

This is a sensibility I keep trying to find words for, and there's a whole line of discourse around it that's called nonduality.

It's again a kind of acknowledgment of the fact that you do exist in duality.

That's the reality of how we relate, or how we have been relating for at least hundreds of years.

But then nonduality is saying like ... can we dissolve or - I wouldn't say transcend but - can we accept that there's a ground beneath - or between - this dualistic perspective?

To conclude, I do get the sense that all of this is what I am, while saying 'I' is equal to saying 'one'. One thing that is relating to itself, or, as some would say, one no-thing.

But the Buddhist way of looking at it probably deserves a separate video. So, there's the separation again.

Thank you for your attention.